Many believe that Buhari’s indifference in 2015 led to the emergence of Sen. Bukola Saraki as the President of the Senate against the will of the APC.

Saraki later defected to the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) which remained a minority party in the outgoing eighth Senate.

Enang also spoke on concerns in some quarters of the over 43 “greenhorn senators’’ expected in the Ninth Assembly and its effect on the quality of bills.

The SSA said there was no such thing as “greenhorn’’ as far as members of the National Assembly were concerned, adding that he expected the Ninth Assembly to be robust.

“Some of them are coming with extra wisdom and knowledge from their different backgrounds. So, we expect a robust legislature. We give them all the respect, we value them, we welcome them, treasure them. The executive respects them across party lines.

“For the executive, every senator or member of the House of Representatives, irrespective of their political party, is a legislator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

”We want to relate with all of them equally. So, there is no greenhorn. They are simply distinguished senators and honourable members,’’ he said.